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After his father’s death in 1955, Taylor took the helm. As publisher of the Globe, Taylor turned the paper into the leading daily newspaper in the region, where it remains...
When Summers took over the helm of the University last spring from the great humanist, Neil L. Rudenstine, he became the first economics professor to assume the presidency. Rudenstine was a French poetry buff, who kept novels piled up around his office. The science-niks with whom he surrounded himself, men like Knowles (chemistry and bio-chemistry) and Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 (computer science) added a little bit of hard accounting to Rudenstine’s aura. All that money Rudenstine raised with his melifluous voice and soft brown eyes was safe, donors...
Carly Fiorina, the frenetic CEO of Hewlett Packard, is a case study in bad leadership. In a company that famously values its employees, especially its scientists, to the point of never resorting to layoffs in bad times, Fiorina gave thousands of engineers the pink slip soon after taking the helm at HP. Then, believing that the best way to fix an ailing, giant company is to merge it with another ailing, giant company and hope for “synergy,” she announced a merger with Compaq, a move that is generating boardroom chaos even now, eight months...
...remember me, as I have drifted off the scene over the last few years. But like you, I was once at the helm of a country dealing with an ethnic group growing increasingly assertive about reclaiming its national rights. So I’m writing to offer you some friendly advice...
...took the helm of the Faculty in July 1991, as Neil L. Rudenstine was taking over the reigns of the University...